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Source: BBC Radio 4 "The New Bath Guide"
Roundup
12-31-69

Before Jane Austen There Was Christopher Anstey [30min]

Biographer Kathryn Hughes travels to Bath to discover more about poet Christopher Anstey, who was the toast of Bath in 1766 for his The New Bath Guide. It satirised the fashions and foibles of Bath society 30 years before Jane Austen. Cast: Roy Hudd as Mr Inkle, Colleen Prendergast as Prudence, Nicholas Boulton as Simkin Blunderhead.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "The New Bath Guide"